Comments on Let the Cloud Support Your Business GrowthStrategic business advice on cloud computing, virtualization and security.2012-04-10T09:52:17Zhttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-navigation/let-the-cloud-support-your-business-growth/feed/atom/By: FrankimburFrankimburhttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-navigation/?p=23#comment-42011-11-09T19:25:39Z2011-11-09T19:25:39ZI have had good luck with some cloud deployment (AWS paired with Debian from TurnkeyLinux.Org) — particularly for small bandwidth applications. I loved moving my creaking backup server to the cloud, and my secondary DNS machine for instance.

The numbers don’t quite work compared to a Co-lo with a typical peak to peak charge though if the bandwidth or CPU needs are decent. This may not be true for others, but is is true in my case when I tried my best to do an apples-to-apples comparison.

Also, some of our clients are not comfortable with the idea that they don’t own anything. A co-located server can be re-deployed at a new data center under a new IP. A cloud SAS account may not leave a migration path at all.

Conclusion — It may still take a few years before I’m 100% ‘in the cloud’.. But I have a feeling I’m going there sooner or later, I have to agree with the article.